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| | Title | The Soul of an Octopus | | Author | Montgomery, Sy | | Sub-Imprint | Atria Books | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781451697728 | | US Price | $16.99 | | CDN Price | $22.99 | | Pages | 272 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year
“Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK
“One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR
Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. |
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| | Title | The Innovators | | Author | Isaacson, Walter | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Technology | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781476708706 | | US Price | $18.99 | | CDN Price | $25.99 | | Pages | 560 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet. |
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| | Title | Before You Know It | | Author | Bargh, John | | Sub-Imprint | Atria Books | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Psychology | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501101229 | | US Price | $18.99 | | CDN Price | $25.99 | | Pages | 352 | | Title Status | BO | | | | |
| | Dr. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a “brilliant and convincing book” (Malcolm Gladwell) cited as an outstanding read of 2017 by Business Insider and The Financial Times—giving us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior. |
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| | Title | Extraordinary Insects | | Author | Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Science | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982112882 | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $23 | | Pages | 256 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | This enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we could not survive without them is “a joy” (The Times, London) and “charming...Highlighting them in all their buzzing, stinging, biting glory” (The New York Times Book Review). |
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| | Title | One Giant Leap | | Author | Fishman, Charles | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | History | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501106309 | | US Price | $18 | | CDN Price | $25 | | Pages | 512 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission. |
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| | Title | The Tangled Tree | | Author | Quammen, David | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Science | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781476776637 | | US Price | $18 | | CDN Price | $25 | | Pages | 480 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history. |
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| | Title | Why Fish Don't Exist | | Author | Miller, Lulu | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501160349 | | US Price | $17.99 | | CDN Price | $24.99 | | Pages | 256 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian
A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.
“At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish…comes up for air, and realizes she’s in love. That’s how I felt: Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten.” —The New York Times Book Review |
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| | Title | Fathoms | | Author | Giggs, Rebecca | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982120702 | | US Price | $18.99 | | CDN Price | $25.99 | | Pages | 352 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. |
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| | Title | The Code Breaker | | Author | Isaacson, Walter | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Hardcover | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982115852 | | US Price | $35 | | CDN Price | $40 | | Pages | 560 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. |
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| | Title | The End of Everything | | Author | Mack, Katie | | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Science | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982103552 | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $23 | | Pages | 256 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIAN
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” (The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. |
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